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Texas
A&M
University
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1965
Number 150
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82 Approved
For Elections
By Commission
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Eighty-two students have been
approved by the Election Com
mission for class elections to be
held March 18. These students
will complete for 19 positions in
next year’s senior, junior and
sophomore classes.
Candidates for Yell Leader,
Memorial Student Center Council
representative and Student Enter
tainment Manager must still be
approved by their respective
committees but have been ap
proved by the commission.
Senior Class candidates are:
President: Jack R. Fickessen,
Charles F. Wetherbee, Narciso
Cano, Leonard D. Holder and Ter
ry R. Norman.
Vice President: Thomas R.
Hargrove, Sam S. Henry, Paul
R. Studley, Marion H. Tindall,
Donald R. VonDolen, and James
W. Howard .
Secretary-Treasurer: Michael
0. Beck, R. Ervin Jenkins, Char
les T. McGinnis III, Donald R.
Hlozek, William M. Peoples and
Louis Sabayrac.
Social Secretary: Michael L.
Evans and Harris Pappas.
Historian: John D. Gaden Jr.,
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Actress Grimes
Claims 2 Attacks
By White Racists
NEW YORK (^P> — Her face
cut and bruised and her hand
slashed, musical comedy star Tam
my Grimes said today she was at
tacked twice in the past four days.
She blamed the attacks on white
racists.
Police said she had told them
of an injury but quoted her as
telling them she didn’t know how
she was hurt.
“They apparently objected to
my associating with Negro en
tertainers,” Miss Grimes said.
She said the attacks took place
in the Manhattan midtown area
Sunday and Tuesday nights and
that five stitches were required
to close a wound on her left
hand.
The attacks, she said, came after
publciation of a story that Sammy
Davis, Negro entertainer, was stag
ing a night club act for her and
she also was seen leaving a bowling
alley with him last week.
Miss Grimes, who is white,
talked with a report for the
New York Post after the paper
received word of the incidents
from its columnist, Earl Wilson.
David E. Graham and Charles A.
Mella.
Yell Leader: Tifton Simmons
Jr., David J. Rainey, Van K. Ves-
elka, Ralph W. Mistrot Jr., Rod
ney L. Dockery and Joseph K.
Bush.
MSG Council Representative:
Roy L. May, Michael O. Beck and
Russel Stein.
Student Entertainment Manag
er: Robert W. Owen, Michael
Nabors and Ralph W. Mistrot.
Junior Class candidates are:
President: Donald J. Matocha,
John R. Haley, Edward L. Mo
reau, Dwight Recht, William W.
Gordon and James B. Heath.
Vice President: Jack E. Nel
son, Philip L. Newton, Neal C.
Ward, Joe D. Woodard, Cyrus R.
Heaton, Gary W. Foster and Gor
don W. Bentzen.
Secretary-Treasurer: Robert J.
Myers, Fred J. Wright, M. Leroy
Shafer and Harold C. Shade.
Social Secretary: Rex O. Grey
and Mark C. Berry.
Yell Leader: Thomas C. Stone,
Eugene L. Riser, ’Rayford R. Ca
rey, John N. Holladay, Layne H.
Connevey and Weldon D. Bailey.
MSG Council Representative:
William R. Hindman.
Sophomore Class candidates
are:
President: Carl Feducia, Jack
Ronnie Coleman, Milton E. Lind
say, Benny G. Mays, Alfred M.
Williams and Jack E. Ogdee.
Vice President: Stephen E.
Menczer, Gregory A. Peyrefitte,
Neal W. Adams, John T. Corcoran
and Maurice V. Main.
Secretary-Treasurer: Wayne J.
Baird, Henry G. Cisneros, Char
les W. Dawson and Robert J. Ear-
hart.
Social Secretary: Lee Horton,
William R. McLeroy, Don R. Ray
and John Daly.
MSG Council Representative:
Clyde R. Westbrook, Donald L.
Allen and John D. McLeroy.
Following are voting rules to
be followed in the class elections:
1. Only students in classes of
’66, ’67 and ’68 may vote in their
respective elections. No class of
’65 seniors or graduate students
may vote in the class elections.
2. Academic classification will
determine which class a student
votes with, but a student classifi
ed in a higher class because of
advance work can vote with his
original class upon request.
3. All voters must have voter’s
registration cards and new ID
cards to vote.
4. Cards will still be available
on election day.
700 High School Visitors
Expected For Career Day
Displays, Tours
Slated Saturday
More than 700 high school students are expected to
tour A&M facilities Saturday during High School Career
Day.
Approximately 60 academic departments will show
their field of study through displays on the floor of G.
Rollie White Coliseum. While students register they will
have a chance to browse through these exhibits and see
the whole university in a nutshell.
After viewing the fair and registering, the high
school students will proceed
to Guion Hall where they will
Aggies Watch Artist Work
Juan R. Avila sketches young lady at Foun- for prices ranging up to $600. He has been
tain Room entrance in Memorial Student visiting A&M annually for 15 years.
Center. The Austin artist has sold paintings
Improvements For Campus
Studied By Civilian Council
Campus improvements occupied
most of the time at the Civilian
Students Council Thursday night.
Terry Norman reported that
efforts were being made to place
a Post Office receptable in or
around the Academic Building.
Norman said that there was pre
sently a drop for mail in the
building but it did not have any
signs indicating that mail was
picked up regularly, or that the
mail drop was for students.
Norman said the box is for
both students and faculty, but
few students know it is availa
ble.
Larry Claypool reported that
there was a possibility that three
lights would be installed in front
of the Data Processing Building
by the Building and Utilities. It
was brought before the council
at an earlier meeting that the
steps to the center were danger
ous at night without lights.
Another report was the lack of
parking space near the newly
constructed and renovated dorms.
The students were urged to park
in the Law Parking Lot from
the report to the council.
Other business included the
selection of entertainment for the
Civilian Weekend bar-b-que. The
council approved contacting the
“Four Coachmen” to play during
the supper.
The council was also urged to
vote and to apply for positions
in the general election.
President Paul Oliver said that
the proposed reorganization of
the CSC and the Dormitory Presi
dents Council had gone through
Bennie Zinn, director of Student
Affairs, and was now in Dean
of Students James Hannigan’s
office. Oliver said Hannigan re
ported that the proposal needed
final approval before action
could be taken.
be welcomed by President
Earl Rudder. Groups will
then be arranged according
to the student’s academic field
of interest and guides will be
introduced for the afternoon tour.
The University Intercouncil,
sponsors for the day, hopes for
an increased attendance this year.
William Mason, chairman of
the council, said that the trouble
with career day attendance in
the past has been a lack of publi
city. This year over 2,000 per
sons have been contacted con
cerning the event.
Letters have been sent to every
high school in Texas, some Moth
er’s Clubs have bought full page
ads in hometown newspapers,
Former Student Associations have
invited several young men and
the College of Veterinary Medi
cine has even esked veterinarians
to suggest prospective students.
“We extended personal invi
tation to every interested high
school student to attend our ex
panded Career Day activities this
year,” said Auston Kerley, di
rector of the A&M Counseling
and Testing Center and coordi
nator of the event.
“The ‘Academic FaiP should
give visitors an overall view of
the facilities at A&M.”
Stress this year will be on
academic possibilities at A&M.
Students will visit individual
departments in small groups Sat
urday afternoon, and they will
be able to ask questions about
their special fields of interest.
Faculty members will be on hand.
“A&M students play a big part
in the Career Day activities. Many
high school students are invited
by Aggies and they can help
even more by providing some of
these students a place to stay,”
Mason added.
Marriage Forum To Host
Bowman Tuesday Night
Dr. Henry Bowman of the
University of Texas will speak
at the second Marriage Forum
series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Bowman’s talk will cover such
topics as the significance of emo
tional problems that develop early
in marriage, common comflicts,
tensions and how to make adjust
ments, wise spending and budgets,
immaturity, what holds marriage
together, what is needed to get
the husband through school and
the boom in high school and col
lege marriages.
Bowman is a recognized auth
ority on marriage and family life.
He has served as president of
the National Council on Family
Relations, an organization made
up of teachers, physicians, clergy
men, attorneys, social workers
and psychologists.
3 Systems Bill
Introduced
In Senate
AUSTIN UP) — A bill carrying
out part of Gov. John Connally’s
plan to group tax-supported col
leges and universities into three
new systems was . introduced in
the Senate Thursday.
Sen. Galloway Calhoun of Ty
ler introduced the measure which
would expand the University of
Texas and the A&M University
systems along lines recommended
by Connally. The third branch of
Connally’s plan-a state senior col
lege system-is covered by a bill in
troduced earlier in the session by
Rep. Willis Whatley of Houston.
Presidents of the 20 state-sup
ported colleges and universities
adopted a resolution recently voic
ing opposition to the regrouping.
In the Texas State University
System would be A&M, Texas
Tech, Prairie View A&M, Tarle-
ton State, Lamar Tech, Texas A&I
and a new technical college at
San Antonio.
Candid Comments On Current Crises
Students Say Cadet Court Could Understand Cases Better
Question: Would you favor that the Cadet Court review the expulsion of students from the Corps?
RONNIE CLARK JR.
Sophomore, Gainesville
Yes. The Cadet Court is of, by
and for the Corps of Cadets.
The Corps is supposed to be run
by Cadets, mostly juniors and
seniors. I think that it is time
We start letting institutions such
as the Cadet Court, not only re
view such matters as expulsions,
but handle them completely. I
would like to see such a move.
PETE DIAZ
Sophomore, Hidalgo
Yes. I believe that the Cadet
Court should review Cadet ex
pulsions from the Corps because
they are better informed of the
incidents that happen in the
Corps. They are not one-sided,
but rather they have an open
mind on the matter at hand.
I believe that students should
be judged by other students, and
not by others.
AUBREY K. LANGE
Senior, Mason
Yes. This would give the stu
dents—Cadet Court—the respon
sibility to consider the proper
punishment for the misconduct.
The ax would then be on the
students in the Court instead of
the Trigons. The Cadet Court is
a good institution for reprimand
because the students can con
sider proper punishment for
Corps misconduct.
RUDY BLAKELY JR.
Freshman, Becville
Yes. I definitely think so be
cause the members of the Cadet
Court are in a better position to
understand the situation since
they themselves are in the Corps
of Cadet. Most students that
are expeLed usually want to
have their side of the story
heard. By having the Cadet
Court review the case, the stu
dents’ side could be heard.
JIM O’ROURKE
Freshman, New Orleans, La.
Yes. In certain cases I feel the
Cadet Court should have the
right to review. I believe that
the Court which is made up of
students could hand down a de
cision that would be closer to the
offense and in some cases a lot
fairer than the one handed down
by an outsider. Expulsion from
the Corps is serious, especially
for upper classmen.
W. R. (RUSTY) RUSSELL
Sophomore, El Paso
I would be in favor of this be
cause I think that every Cadet
that is expelled should have a
chance to have his expulsion re
viewed. This school was estab
lished to build men and leaders.
The Court was set up for justice,
but this justice should be waived
if necessary. Some of the ex
pulsions formulated A&M and its
status for the building of men.
JOE SPEARS
Sophomore, Fort Worth
Yes. I feel that the Cadet Court
should review expulsions. It
seems to me that these students
don’t have a fair chance to pre
sent their side of the story and
I feel some sort of review should
be held to provide the students
with such a chance. This is only
fair after a student has put in
so much work and has gone
through the hell of Corps life.